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Development of Commercially Transferable Thermochemical Conversion Technologies
Date Approved: 3/1/05
Amount: $630,000
Leads: Roger Ruan, Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering; Lanny Schmidt, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science; David Kittelson, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Kenneth Bickel, Department of Mechanical Engineering; and Doug Tiffany, Department of Applied Economics
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Environmental Genomic Libraries for Discovering Novel Enzymes for Bioenergy and Biocatalysis
Date Approved: 11/21/06
Amount: $50,000
Lead: Michael Sadowsky, Department of Soil, Water and Climate
Benefits and Deliverables:
- Construct a series of metagenomic libraries that can be used to identify novel biocatalysts for alternative energy and other research and development needs
- Screen the metagenomic library for novel biocatalysts
- Identify novel cellulolytic enzymes for bioenergy and biocatalysis
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Sustainable Fuel-Sourcing Systems for Biomass Energy Production: Two Minnesota Case Studies
Date Approved: 2/17/04
Amount: $24,600
Leads: Nicholas Jordan, Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics and Dean Current, CINRAM
Contacts: Nicholas Jordan, Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics and Dean Current, CINRAM
Benefits and Deliverables:
- Identify economic and environmental differences between traditional energy and bioenergy production systems as well as traditional crops and perennial cropping systems as feed stocks for bioenergy production.
- Identify opportunities for market-driven targeted landscape level change provided by bioenergy production and the environmental and econo mic benefits of that change.
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Develop Sustainable Renewable Energy Systems for Practical Utilization of Bulky Biomass
Date Approved: 7/1/07
Amount: $945,158
Leads: Roger Ruan - Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, Paul Chen - Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, Lanny Schmidt - Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Doug Raynie - SDSU, Chemistry, Bill Gibbons - SDSU, Biology/Microbiology, Kasiviswanathan Muthukumarappan - SDSU, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Doug Tiffany - Department of Applied Economics, David Kittelson - Department of Mechanical Engineering
Benefits and Deliverables:
The long-term goal of this research is to develop sustainable systems for practical utilization of largely available bulky biomass for production of renewable energy, which will benefit both the processors and feedstock producers (farmers). The specific supporting objectives of the project are (1) to develop a set of scalable technologies for converting bulky biomass to products of higher energy density on farms, (2) to develop processes to use these products or further refine products, (3) to develop models to implement a distributed biorefining approach, and (4) to assess the techno-economic feasibility of the models. |
Dual Renewable Biofuels from a Single Source
Date Approved: 7/8/07
Amount: $350,000
Leads: Ron Phillips - Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, Roger Ruan - Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, Doug Tiffany - Department of Applied Economics
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Metagenomic Libraries and Enzyme Screening Systems for Conversion of Biomass to Energy
Date Approved: 7/8/07
Amount: $295,650
Leads: Mike Sakowsky - Department of Soil, Water and Climate and Ulrike Tschirner - Department of
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